The Cecil Whig., 1887-05-14


| Our eldest, not ct three (aud very
small talker generallD, on returning
| from "a long drive was undI essrd and pm,
to bed. Stretching his cnubby form, e
| slowly remarked "Defe's no pace yikr
! home"
Little jim, whose father is !. minister,
went, while visiting his aunt i'll another
| city, to hear DIR. A, a speaker OF great
vigur. Coming from church the first
| sunday after his return home, he asked
hlS mother: why doesn't papa shake
his arms at the people and talk angry
ABOUT God. like the minister at Aunl
| Mary church,
Little Susie four years old, was being
relruvcd by her mamma, who SAID she
mus he better gIi or she would have
| to PUNISH her: that She WAS very, very
naughty, etc, Susie began to hum a tune;
soon She sang aloud. Her mamma said
stop singing; don t you know that it is
Saucy for YOU to sing when am talking
| to your Susie could endure it no longer.
She burst out sobbing and said "DIdn t
MIR. Beecher say that when you felt bad
you must siug?"
\ dear little one pushed a chair in
front of the mirror as soon as she had
finished saying her prayers and climbing
| up on it, began to brush her hair vigor
ously. why, Annie" saId the surprised
mother. why do you brush yGur hair?
Don you know that you will musS it
again as soon as you put your mead ou
the pillow. Aud, besides, you are k' eping
mamma waning" Mamma Allen. -
SAID Annie, facing around with hrIghten-
Ing e.rS, "dldn't | des pray IT | should
die uc:Dr., | axe aud w"uliu | want
90 wAik irto Heaven with my hair all
bru he'd
We have Erar'! Of child whose mother
sang to her nightly the hy mn,
"iim,l:. my child, lie still and sluEber,
Holy angels guard thy bed"
The mother finally noticed that the lit lie
girl always covered her face Tor the night
with the sheet Pressed to explain this,
she said she ''diin t think it fair for the
angels to watch her when she could not
see Them Another night she burst
out with "Mother | cannot bear the
angel Is here any longer! They must go
our ma stand i'll tn" hall,
In t"iS ImlaylnatIve power hes per
hapS, i'll many C :NtS, the true origin OF
thai general ,imldity. fear OF the dark.
10 donbt justly to the Ioullsh words of
servants.
One day found Annie, a little black
eyed beauty, sitting astrlde my bed post
gazing with delight at her image in the
mirror. asked why she looked in the
lass. She frankly SAID | like the looks
ot me-
Familiarity with sacred things does
1 IL
the very ynung, as would be the case
with those who are older, although the
distinction between the earthly and the
Heavenly Father is not always SO vividly
drawn as it ought to be. 1t was entirely
in "a spirit of Innocent raillery that lit
rle one was seen to gaze tixedly at the
crescent moon. winch she detected in
hazy outline early one morning. After
LOOKING for moment to satisfy herself
that what she saw was not due to the
wol kings of fancy. she ran shouting with
'aug hter to her mother, aud, when sh e
could trust herself to speak, broke out
with ''Such Joke on our Heavenly Father;
Such a Joke on our Heavenly Father! He
forgot To take in His moon Last night"
Nelly. whose grandfather began life as
4 cabin boy and finished as "A millionaire,
was paid by her mother one cent a dozen
tor pins picked up from the carpet to
keep the baby from getting them.
Nurse" said Nelly, as her stock of pen
MES increased, 'do you know what am
going to do when | have six cents?"
No. answered Nurse. Il am going to
buy paper of pins aud scatter them
over the floor and then pick them up"
replied the young tinancier, who was
barely five years old.